8/12 Why is "tabbed browsing" in Mozilla a good feature. I've always been
able to open new windows in NS or IE by Ctrl-N or right-clicking and
choose "Open in new window".
\_ All your sites stay in the same window. Try opening 20 windows
in IE and then 20 tabs in mozilla. I don't understand why you
would even use NS when it is just the mozilla code with extra bad
and useless advertising crap and minus some of mozilla's better
features. Try it, you'll like it.
\_ Ads come from web pages, not a browser, right?
\_ Mozilla doesn't have a "SHOP" button, right next to the
"STOP" button, unlike IE, so no, wrong in this context.
\_ Also, it's a lot faster to open 20 tabs than 20 windows. And
you can have the tabs loading in the background, whereas
new windows will steal focus from your old one.
\_ I'm using NS 7.1 because it's been out there for a long time
(1yr?) and I thought that means it's more stable and fewer
security holes. Whereas Mozilla keeps on having new releases, so
it seems less stable.
\_ You are sadly misguided. Netscape is basically just a
snapshot of Mozilla at one moment in time, and from that
they put in some "value-added" crap. So you could just get
the release of Mozilla that your Netscape is derived from.
Look on the about page for the build date.
\_ Geez. I'm ditching NS now! Thx.
\_ it's a preference thing. for me, it's cleaner to have all my pages
in one window. wanna minimize everything? you just have to minimize
one window. not everyone needs the feature though.
\_ I use both tabs and multiple windows; each window contains several
tabs with related pages. It's a lot easier to manage than the
10+ windows I'd have open otherwise. -tom
\_ Yes, tabbed browsing is used most by non-degreed government
employees, followed closely by time spent on the wall, time
spent on the motd, then lunch, then smoke break, and somewhere
below clock watching, work.
\_ get a life.
\_ ouch! that was stinging! what a zinger!
\_ It's even better in Opera IMO. Mostly because if you close Opera
(or even if it crashes) when you start again all your pages are
still there.
\_ Opera: $$$. Mozilla: no $$$.
\_ Is there a FireFox extension that emulates this?
\_ crash recovery - http://recall.mozdev.org. I believe there's also
one that autosaves/remembers on start, but I haven't used it
-dwc
\_ Call me when it's no longer an extension.
\_ As if it matters. Why do you care? You want a giant
monolithic piece of crap with everything complied in?
Microsoft has the perfect browser for you!
\_ No, I'm not looking for emacs. Opera for Win32 is a
whopping 3.4 MB download. I hardly call that
monolithic.
\_ And it doesn't have the same feature set as
Mozilla.
\_ Also, an irritation of Mozilla is that when you close a tab, you
get dumped into the rightmost tab. Opera allows you to cycle
through MRU order. Oh, and you can move tabs around easily. And
if you have multiple frames, it's easy to move tabs from one
frame to another.
\_ I like the right tab focus. I just read tabs right to left
and open them in reverse order of interest.
\_ there are a couple nice extensions that allow you to do
things like this in mozilla/firefox as well...
\_ Call me when they're no longer extensions.
\_ Um... the whole POINT is that they're extensions, and
will never be integrated. Make the core product fast,
and let users add the additions that they want...
\_ Great. Will I have to download a plugin to use the
cursor keys to navigate a page up and down? Sorry,
if you have tabbed browsing, you need some ability
to use those tabs effectively. Opera is
light-years ahead of Mozilla on this.
\_ Call me when Opera costs the same as Mozilla.
\_ I navigate with the cursor keys all the time.
\_ Why is that not a plugin?! Those Moz
hypocrites--integrating that as a feature
instead of leaving it as a plugin.
\_ Why is free-as-in-beer not a feature of
Opera? Why do they have to plug-in to my
wallet to get a slightly different version
of tabbed browsing?
\_ I have no problem paying for superior
software. If you're happy with
inferior-but-free-as-in-beer tools,
more power to you.
\_ Superior? Opera is going to make
my life better than Mozilla enough
to pay for it? Which stock market
did you get your money in?
\_ Tab browsing makes it easier to follow threads in mailing lists.
You know that each of the tabs following the current on are
replies in the thread you are reading.
\_ I used to be annoyed by tabs; I liked Ctrl-N a lot. Now I love
tabs and I use Ctrl-T and middle-click all the time. Mainly a new
window opening up is just slower, and the saved start bar real
estate is great.
\_ Seconded. Tabs wierded me out for quite a while, but they really
\_ Seconded. Tabs weirded me out for quite a while, but they really
are quite convenient, for reasons of window managability, screen
real estate, nd background loading. On the rare occasions I want
to compare 2 pages side-by-side, there's still Ctrl-N.
to compare 2 pages side-by-side, there's still Ctrl-N. [spelld]
\_ Is there a way to configure Mozilla to always open links in
a new tab when you click (accidentailly) on a link that would
otherwise open a new window?? I don't always want to hold down
ctrl key when I am pressing the mouse button...
\_ Middle mouse button. It's in the preferences.
\_ Middle button always opens a new tab. I want to
open a new tab only if the link would open a new
window. Kind of override new window with new tab
feature.
\_ check out the tabbrowser extensions
\_ check about:config, browser.tabs.opentabfor.windowopen |
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